State v. Pardon

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 663

Syllabus

Appellant's assigned errors based on ineffective assistance of counsel, Evid.R. 804(B)(5), and his constitutional confrontation clause rights both lacked merit and did not amount to prejudicial or plain error where the record showed defense counsel deliberately did not object to the admission of an \agreed upon\ portion of an interview between a detective and a deceased witness and, amid overwhelming evidence linking the appellant to the crime, used that interview to benefit the appellant's defense. Judgment affirmed.